OPPO DV-980H 1080p Up-Converting Universal DVD Player with HDMI and 7.1CH Audio
by OPPO Digital
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Customer Review: Excellent upconversion
Summary: 5 Stars
In the past year I have had three upconverting DVD players, the OPPO DV-980H is by far the best. The picture quality is outstanding from standard DVDs (upconverted to 720p or 1080i and displayed on 42" Panasonic Plasma) and is much better than anything else I have personally seen. I recently tried the Sony DVP-NS75H and a Sony DVP-NS77H.
The DVP-NS75H had pretty good picture and I was happy with the player but it was stolen and is no longer available on Amazon. I replaced it with the DVP-HS77H thinking it was the upgraded NS75H (adding 1080p support). The upconversion processing must have been severely downgraded because the picture quality was noticeably degraded compared to the NS75H (same display, cabling and source discs).
I returned the NS77H and purchased the OPPO DV-980H. From the first disc I could tell the picture was largely improved over both sony players (especially the NS77H). I have settled on 720p for my display (does not support 1080p) and am very happy. The picture is crisp, but not overly sharpened, there no noticable image upscaling artifacts (e.g., blocks at high-contrast boarders). The player handles all my discs without issue or delay (including scratched netflix and children's discs that have been abused).
I highly recommend this player if you can get used to the $170 price for a "regular" dvd player. My only real complaint is that the remote feels a bit odd to me, but that may be because it is new and different from what I am used to.
Customer Review: Very versatile player. Excellent value.
Summary: 5 Stars
My previous DVD player is more than 5 years old. I bought a new 42 inch plasma TV two months ago. I was looking for a DVD player that has HDMI connection and also plays music well.
This player has everything that I need. The video is good. It plays SACD. I looked on the Internet and set the machine to "all region". It can play some DVD's that I could not play in my other players. All in all, a very good buy. Compared with other up conversion DVD players, its price is a bit on the high side. However, the performance is very satisfactory.
The audio section uses the old standby TI 5532 surface mount chip. The output capacitors are supposed to be good sounding. They are 105C rated and nice looking capacitors. The space is tight but I managed to bias the output IC to class A with two resistors. Opera DVD's now sound good.
As for the video, I am not very well versed in this area. It seems to work quite well with my TV. The one very nice feature is the front USB slot. The slot allows me to play video files directly. I simply copy the video file to a 4 GB flash drive and it plays along just like a DVD. I have tried some of my portable hard drives but with no luck.
I am more a DIY kind of person. I learned some tricks to improve commercial players from Internet. However, I have no fancy high priced DVD players to compare against. Thus, I cannot comment how does it perform against "high end" equipment. For regular music lovers, this player should work well.
Customer Review: Nice product, great support
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this back in November 2007, and use it for both DVDs and DivX (avi) via the USB port. I noticed that most DVDs had a problem with momentary pauses periodically while playing, just barely noticeable but annoying.
I sent an email to their support, and received a reply within an hour, not a canned reply, or a promise to get back to me, but an actual answer from a human. All emails have been answered like this. I had to call once, and the call was answered and transferred immediately to a real support person, with no hold time at all. Very encouraging, but I was told I would need to send it in. They sent me a prepaid FedEx label to use, and I got out my old DVD player and sent off the new one.
Well, I really didn't even need to bother setting up the old one; I sent mine off on a Monday before work, got an email saying they received it that day and apologized (again) for the problem; then, by Wednesday, FedEx was ringing my bell with a new unit. They were unable to immediately reproduce the problem, so they sent me a new one while they worked on the old one. I have not had any problems so far, after 3 DVDs, so I assume there was some mechanical alignment problem or something with the old one.
By the way, I have a 200 GB external USB drive connected to it, and it works perfectly. It's nice having so much material online. It can also view photos and play MP3s, although I don't do that much.
Customer Review: 2nd Unit Flawless - First unit kept freezing but still EXCELLENT
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a 50inch Samsung Plasma 1080i and not 1080p. At 1080i and/or 720p the up-conversion is stunning. much better than my older Toshiba unit. Unfortunately, it's my second unit. My original unit kept freezing especially with XVID movies.
So I called Oppo support and they were excellent to work with. The engineer believed that the decoder was malfunctioning since the files worked fine with my older Toshiba unit that I was consequently replacing.
I requested a replacement unit online with Amazon which was a breeze and at no cost to me. UPS came the next day and picked up my broken unit. I received my new unit the following day.
The new unit has none of the issues I had. So far it's working flawlessly.
I recommend setting the wide screen to 16:9 Wide/Auto. When watching XVID and DIVX files, this setting will automatically set the proper aspect ratio between standard wide and anamorphic wide (extra widescreen). My old unit could not differentiate between to two so any anamorphic wide movies were always stretched and distorted.
I am assuming that Oppo will probably come out with a Blue-Ray version since the HD war is finally over. Please keep the USB socket. It's an excellent convenient feature.
FYI - Any device plugged into the USB must be formatted into FAT32. It will NOT work with NTFS hard drive. just reformat using FAT32 and you will be all set!
Customer Review: Very impressed
Summary: 5 Stars
Had not even heard of this company until about three weeks ago, but after reading various reviews I decided to give it a go as a companion to my new HDTV. The manual was refreshingly well written and the included HDMI cable is nice (like getting a $20 discount in a way). Had it set up in a few minutes, adjusted it to 1080p and popped in "Tora, Tora, Tora" since I'd watched that recently on my 32" Sony CRT. Wow, a whole different experience. I saw details I'd never noticed before, especially on the big Japanese battleship set. Flipping between this and a real HD signal I could see the difference, but other than that it was easy to forget it was up converted.
I then tried some episodes of "Firefly" and, again, very nice. Maybe a little less sharp than the movie DVD - hard to say, but it's reasonable that some content will scale better than others. (And "Firefly" was originally shot for TV, not widescreen theater projection.)
I can't say it does a better job than other upscaling players because this is the first I've owned and I never saw any demos of others. I'm more than satisfied with the results this one produces, though.
Update: Almost a year later and it's still working great, awesome upscaling of commercial DVDs, etc. Recently tried it on region 2, PAL format DVDs and no problem (used the setup+9210 trick to get to the region setting). Tempted to buy a second one as a backup.